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pbhjpbhj on Feb 19, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Battlesnake – Competitive Snake Games over HTTP

" Step 1

Write a program to play the game Snake

Step 2

Deploy using whatever technology you like

Step 3

Battle other snakes and compete in arenas!

"

Sounds cool, that title make it sound like yet another worms.io clone, but this is programmatic gaming - I feel the title should include that, or "make a snake bot to battle in a classic 'snake' arena".

bvanvugt on Feb 19, 2019 | [–]

Yeah I like something like this: "Build a bot to play the classic game 'Snake'"

hiccuphippo on Feb 19, 2019 | [–]

That sounds just like armagetron.

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